Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-08-12
MONS OF THE FUTURE
ralmage Says They Will Be
Short.

Or. Talmage says 4ney WIN 81
p.Mpross, July 24.-The Rev.
Witt Talmage's subject this
I; 20 was: preaching, Teaching,
E,nnSSorstion, and his text: Romans
o. q. aOr ministry, let us wait on
;n;stering; or he that teacheth,
ll Ing. or he that exhorteth, on
f"re the world is converted the
~ ~ religious discourse will have to
,orerted. You might as we'll go
tns modern Sedan or Gettysburg
wv hows and arrows instead of rifles
,ombshells and parks of artillery,
expect to conquer this world for
hy the old styles of exhortation
Chronology. Jonathan Edwards
el,ea the sermons most adapted to
90 in which he lived, but if those
Ems we're preached now they would
a an audience into two classes,
sound asleep and those wanting
home. =,
Euture-who will preach it I have
sea in what part of the earth it will
horn I have no idea, in which de-
nation of Christians it will be
,ered I cannot guess. That dis
,e or exhortation may be born in
country meeting house on the
IS of the st. Lawrence, or the Ore
or the Ohio, or the Tombigbee, or
Alabama The person who shall
Eer it may this moment be in q
le under the shadows of the Sierra
adas, or in a New England farm
Be, or amid the rice fields of the
hern savannas. Or this moment
i may be some young man in some
bur theological seminaries, in the
or or middle or senior class, shap-
that weapon of power. Or there
be coming some new baptism of
Holy Ghost on the churches, so
some of us who stand in the watch
ers of Zion, waking to q realization
ur present inefficiency, may preach
ourselves. That coming discourse
not be fifty years off. And let us
God that its arrival may be has
ID, while I announce to you what I
Xix will he the chief characteristics
bat discourse or exhortation when
oes arrive, and I want to make the
larks of the morning appropriate
suggestive to all classes of Chris
workers.
irst of all Iremark. that that future
gious discourse will be full of liv-
Christ in contradistiAction to di-
i technicalities. A discourse may
full of Christ though hardly mem
ling His name, and a sermon may be
bly, of Christ while every sentence
epetitious of His titles. The world
bts living Christ, not Christ
bding at the head of q formal system
heology, but Christ who means
don and sympathy, and coincidence,
brotherhood, and life, and heaven.
poor mans Christ. A rich mans
Eist An overworked mans Christ.
nvalid's Christ. A farmers Christ,
merchants Christ. An artisans
tist. An every mans Christ.
symmetrical and fine worded sys-
Of theology is we'll enough for
illogical classes, but it has no more
iness in pulpit than have the tech
u phrases of an anatomist or psy-
|logist or a physician in the sick room
patient. The world wants help,
[ediate and world uplifting, and it
come through a discourse in which
rist shall walk right down into the
fnortal soul and take everlasting pos
Zion of it, filling it as full of light as
monday armament.
That sermon or exhortation of the fu-
e will not deal with men in the
eadbare illustrations of Jesus Christ.
that coming address there will be
tances of vicarious suffering taken
PIT out of everyday life, for there is
day somebody is not dying for
Pers. AS the physician saving his
(htheritic patient by sacrificing his
b life; as the ship captain going
En with his vessel, while he is get
& his passengers into the life-boat;
the fireman consuming in the burn
building while he is taking a child
Of fcur-story window; as il sum-
r the strong swimmer at East Hamp-
or Long Branch. or Cape May, or
|ke George, himself persisted trying
Rescue the drowning; as the newspa-
B boy one summer, supporting his
Pther for some years, his invalid
Pther, when offered by gentleman
cents to get some especial paper,
p he got it, and rushed up in his anx-
y to deliver it, and was crushed I'M
r the wheels of the train, and lay on
grass with only strength enough to
:: "Oh, what will become of my
pr sick mother now?"
|'lcarlous suffering. The world is
OF it. An engineer said to me on q
Comotlve in Dakota: 1--WE men seem
be coming to better appreciation
~ we used to. Did you see that ac-
pnt the other day of an engineer who
save his passengers stuck to his
ace, and when he was found dead in
locomotive, which was upside down,
was found still smiling, his hand on
:, AR brake?" And as the engineer
u 1t to me, he put his hand on the
brake to illustrate his meaning, and
looked at him and thought: "You
'old be just as much of a hero in the
NE crisis"
VI, in that religious discourse of the
lure there will be living illustrations
sen out from everyday life of vicarious
aeflng-illustrations that will bring to
lld the ghastlier sacrifice of Him who